Philip Roodveldt was a son of Gompel Roodveldt and Clara Groen. He married 24 December 1931 in Amsterdam Susanna Morpurgo, a daughter of Louis Morpurgo and Naatje van Wijnbergen. She survived the Holocaust and remarried in 1952.

City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Susanna Morpurgo, website www.wiewaswie.nl and the Antwerp Dossier of Foreigners, nr. 188865.